Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. With the release of the teaser trailer for Jon Favreau's Summer 2011 tentpole entry COWBOYS AND ALIENS, I figured now would be a good time to talk a tiny bit about something fun that happened a week or two ago. But let's look at the trailer first, shall we?
Yahoo has it in much better form than their exclusives yesterday.

Pretty damn good, right? It's a real teaser. You don't see the aliens, you don't know the whole damn story in advance and you don't get all the money shots 8 months out from release.
I was in LA recently for a quick in and out trip (that's a hit and run trip, 36 hours in the city, not that I was just there for In-N-Out Burger... although I did that, too) and while I was there a visit to the edit bay of Cowboys and Aliens dropped into my lap, an offer you can't refuse no matter how busy your schedule is.
Understandably Favreau doesn't want me to detail every single bit of the nearly 45 minutes I watched reported until a little later, but I will tell you that the talk I was hearing on the set about going for a John Ford aesthetic wasn't placating the movie geek. This is a western first, down to the casting of all involved, from the Steve McQueen-in-Magnificent-Seven-looking Daniel Craig to Keith Carradine as the kind but tough Sheriff (which felt a little like an extension of his Wild Bill Hickock performance in Deadwood) to Olivia Wilde who has never been more exotic and gorgeous onscreen to Paul Dano's pampered rich kid slimebag to Sam Rockwell as the barkeep to Clancy Brown as the preacher with a shotgun.
Favreau wasn't going for a John Ford feel in this crazy sci-fi action film, he wanted it to be a John Ford movie before the aliens show up. And they don't show up for a little while, letting us get to know the characters a bit before the shit hits the town.
In the first 40 minutes of the movie we are introduced to our characters, every single one gets a moment to make an impression (especially the introduction of Harrison Ford's Col. Dolarhyde, the most feared man in the West until the aliens show up... seriously, nobody has treated Ford like this much of a badass since that shot of the mine-cart light illuminating the pissed off Dr. Jones in Temple of Doom) and then they quickly have to band together in order to save their loved ones.
There was a bit of Hitchcock tease in the opening, only glimpsing aliens as lights in the sky or, when one of the fighters is downed by Craig, as a silhouette in a window. Matty Libatique's lighting is top notch as always (between this and Aronofsky's Black Swan I'm tempted to write him a love letter, all my i's dotted with hearts and glitter sprinkled in the envelope).
The first two reels I watched from beginning to end and we only made one time jump so that I could get a glimpse at Legacy (nee Stan Winston Studios) Effects' animatronic alien. The set was spectacular (more on that later) and the moment I saw, involving young Noah Ringer giving a surprisingly good performance that makes me hate how badly M. Night fucked up The Last Airbender even more, was tense, creepy and more importantly really there. There was a menace to the alien that I wasn't expecting.
Cowboys and Aliens isn't goofy, something that could have easily been the instant knee-jerk for the filmmakers considering the subject matter and the reason I'm personally excited (and happy to see that excitement spreading via this new trailer) is that we're seeing one of our better big budget filmmakers taking genre seriously... two genres in this case and if what I've seen is any indication we could have that rare summer blockbuster that is exciting, thrilling, entertaining, but also doesn't treat us like we're ADHD children that just want something shiny dangled before us every 2 minutes.
That's it from me. What'd you think of the trailer?
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Got to say, that does look really good. Now it's time to switch off the geek in me and not watch any more trailers or read anything about this movie until i see it in a theater... Let's not spoil the experience...

At the end I thought Ford was going to say "I got to get me one of those." and ruin the whole thing.
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And Craig better be prepping for the next Bond film. And news on that now that it seems like all obsticles are out of the way?

The trailer really looks great. I am a big fan of both the science fiction and western genres, and I'm surprised that nobody has thought to combine them before (okay, there is West World, but that was a theme park gone wild). We are all so used to aliens attacking earth in present day, but you have to think that they probably had the same technology100 - 150 years ago as well (and earth was certainly much more vunerable to attack back then). Why not the medeival period as well? Knights slaying what would become the basis for dragons in mythology. If this is a hit, I'm sure somebody will do it.

This looks like the Harrison Ford we haven't seen, since 'The Fugitive'; and it's, also, looking like a nice return to form for Favreau, after he got handcuffed, by Marvel when he was making Iron Man 2. That trailer made me want to go see this.

...and it looks very promising. Craig was good casting for this. He pulls off the bad-ass cowboy thing quite well. Here's hoping Harrison Ford shows some of the ol' spark. He seems so bored and uninspired in his films as of late.

I for one am really excited to see Harrison Ford start a new career path. No more carrying a movie by himself but taking the older Sean Connery approach and playing second fiddle. Hell, most of the roles are the best anyways. Hopefully this is the start of a second wind for Ford. Growing up watching him as Solo and Jones, I for one am very excited to see him reestablish himself.

Scifi and Western have been combined many times before.the ones i know: Starcraft,BraveStarr,Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs,WestWorld,Firefly,there is an Outer Limits episode with Aliens in the Wild West,there is the Weird West comic series and if you check Wikipedia there is a list with many b-movies and tv episodes set in the Wild West with Aliens.<br />
<p>Besides this movie is based on a comic,in other words it is not as original as you think it is.

Would've meant another 2 hours of him stroking his own cock at the thought of how awesome he is, being uber-cocky and a know-it-all (despite having amnesia, from the look of it). Plus it's beginning to feel a bit redundant seeing him in fucking everything nowadays.

You are just assuming he doesn't have a sore asshole... he could have the wrist gun AND a sore asshole! Of course I'm assuming Olivia Wilde already has a sore asshole before she gets abducted... The aliens were probably like "WTF, somebody already probed her asshole!"

I'll be honest, the last two Summers have severely shaken my enthusiasm as a genre film fan and I thought I had either out-aged the imaginative film genre or I'd become imaginatively obsolete in regards to what people want in genre films today. Then all in one day I see THIS, which has me as excited as a schoolboy who just discovered Famous Monsters, and I see the "Green Lantern" trailer which looks much better than I expected after the bad feeling I got from the tone projected in the terrible Entertainment Tonight footage which seem to edit together the worst possible moments in order to make the film look as dumb as possible. I think about upcoming stuff I'm actually excited about again like "Tron: Legacy," "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" and "The Hobbit," and suddenly things don't seem as dark. For weeks I was just cruising the site seeing piece after piece about "Transformers 3," which is exactly the kind of film that has ultimately made me feel alienated by modern genre cinmema. Harry's description of modern genre film makers treaing " us like we're ADHD children that just want something shiny dangled before us every 2 minutes" is absolutely on target and something I wish more critics and fans would rally against instead of allowing those movies to make $300 million "cause it's got good effects so just turn off your brain and have fun." Don't write good reviews of something shinny that will be forgotten in three months. Think before you write! Anyway, what I'm saying is that I'm hearing good things and seeing hopeful signs for the furture of imaginative cinema. It feels good to hopeful again.

The first movie of 2011 that I can definately say I am interested in seeing. It just oozes coolness from every frame, and it will be a delight to see Ford playing evil bastard again. Bring this fucker on with nothing less than absolute haste.

I expected goofy from the title alone, although I was a bit suspicious of myself when the teaser poster dropped. I'm really impressed. Fantastic trailer. I didn't think it was possible for me to love Daniel Craig more, but I do.<p>More than anyone who has tried/announced that they intend to try in recent times Favreau really seems to get the eighties Amblin vibe. Starting with ZATHURA.

Two trailers posted up with Harry and Quint using the same exact expression - they're not "goofy".<p>
GREEN LANTERN trailer was most definitely goofy.<p>
This one wasn't... but COWBOYS AND ALIENS as a title IS goofy.<p>
So all things considered - there's more goofiness around than Harry and Quint are prepared to admit.

Dang, I was kinda hoping it would be cool, but man...that looks freaking great. It could ultimately disappoint, but it wasn't like I had high expectations to begin with. Love the cast, love the look...and that is always a great place to start.
I don't even know that I WANT to see any more than what I just saw. I'd rather be surprised. This trailer did what trailers are supposed to do. Thank you, Mr. Trailer Editor Person.

Nov. 17, 2010, 1:47 p.m. CST

by Cobra--Kai

Quint, also (as Bradzhul) said - how does this trailer ooze John Ford?<p>
Have you even seen a John Ford movie dude?<p>
This film looks more in line with recent 'actiony' westerns like TOMBSTONE and QUICK AND THE DEAD. No bad thing. But not John Ford.

...besides Harrison, would be
all the great character actors
that are inserted in this. Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell, Walter Goggins, Paul Dano
along with Ford and Craig?...that's
one kick-ass contemporary John Ford cast right there. If what Quint says is true...that they're actually taking a 'Stagecoach'like
approach to the story arch, and taking the time to introduce and establish this great cast of characters before lead and lasers
start flying, this could be great.

All talent aside, you have this thing called suspension of disbelief. This looks all shades of stupid to me. I almost can't handle these vs. movies anymore. Not almost...I can't. This is just plain dumb.

...Phifty2 just put that thought
down like a 18 year old, incontinent cancer dog. Just looked at the rest of the cast list. Prediction...Raoul Trujillo will be Badass in this. Nice to see the heavy from Apocalypto getting more high profile work.

do you like SCI-FI at all? 99.9% of it is implausible.
the only thing i disbelieve is Favreau's/Iron-Man's/Movie tech's addiction to machinery that folds and unfolds as if it were 2 dimensional and can do 1000 things.

My interest in this just went from about 3.5 to 11! Holy sweet motherfuck, if this trailer didn't give you at least a little tingle you need to go away and never return to AICN, 'cause you're no film geek!

then i don't want to see any more either. this seemed the length of a standard trailer but hooked me, and showed me enough to hook me without giving away the entire movie. that's what trailers USED to do. i guess that is called a teaser now. so if this is a teaser, what do you call that shitty SUPER 8 'teaser' thing they filmed before the movie has even begun production, shows us nothing, and arouses no wonder or interest?

It looks a lot better than I thought it was going to be. I definitely like the serious/gritty tone to it, I was expecting something campy. Let's just hope Harrison Ford gives us an actual performance instead of sleepwalking through it like he's done in the past decade or so.

who said he was out because of Iron Man 2?
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And it makes the GL trailer look sort of sad in comparison.
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And is it me, but I was getting a very Steve Mcqueen vibe from Craig here? Hell, he looks just like him.
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Also Favreau looks like he brought Harrison Ford back to life again, because his sneering line in the beginning of the trailer is aces.

...am I the only one who thinks even that was too much for a so-called teaser? When I think of teaser I think of 1 minute trailer with maybe one scene or something like TDK with the Joker teaser. This was more like a trailer...almost three minutes long, and one too many money shots. I know by modern standards it does seem like they held back a lot which is good, but I still think that was way more than a tease. But besides the moronic title, it looks pretty badass, particularly Daniel Craig.

...I'll be super pissed at the Broccollis. The guy can do, like five more Bonds, without breaking a sweat. He's definitely the best Bond since Connery. And give it to somebody like Peter Berg to direct.

James Bond and Indiana Jones are in a second movie together!
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This looks like it could be great fun and could be Ford's return to form after literally years of dull uninspired performances and dull uninspired films from him. We almost got it in IJ4 but not quite.
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This has potential to be great fun.
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PS: was that visible wire work when that stuntman was tossed from his horse at ~1:36?

I'd watch that comboy movie alone and be jazzed about it, without the scifi element. Ford for once looks like he's actually acting again which is a brilliant, brilliant thing and Craig looked awesome. This is going to be fantastic. Zero doubts about it.

Favreau's a little hurt from the mediocre reviews of Iron Man 2. So he's gonna go balls-up geek-out on this. Gotta love the cast. At first I had my reservations (no pun, I insist), but the trailer has got my hope up.

Good to see the old boy so lively. Here's hoping it spans the entire movie.<P>Yes, as teaser trailers go... that one hints at a potentially winning movie. But I no longer trust good trailers. A *mediocre* trailer usually indicates a movie of similar quality; cat's outta the bag/move along, nothing to see here. "The Phantom Menace" seemed to usher in a new era of truly impressive trailers that ultimately yielded piss-poor movies. Not always the case, but far too frequently.<P>If George Lucas left one significant imprint on American cinema with the SW Prequels, it was how to cut a trailer that fools the shit out of almost everyone.

What the HELL!! Every freaking time I try to play one of the HD versions it downloads a qtlHD.qtl file that it says "quicktime does not understand"!?!? I had no trouble playing that SHIT looking Green Lantern trailer yesterday(I hope the movie is good but those suit FX SUCK!) Now I can't get this trailer to play. Really want to see this trailer in HD. Anyone else having trouble? I can't be the only one can I?

Flawed, yes, but not bad. The haters are going over the top as usual. Oddly, truly bad films (Legion, Skyline) seem to go unnoticed. Some of you wouldn't know a bad film if it stuck its dick up your ass.

rather than back in the Old West. People weren't technology-dependent pussies back then. What would aliens do back then to disrupt our lives? Hijack the Internet? Disrupt a metropolitan power grid? Okay, they could still blow us up, but my point stands.

...but this does not bode well. It looks like a mid budget science fiction 'Bonanza' with actors who should be doing better things. Toy store are gonna have a field day, no doubt...wrist gizmos everywhere. Ah well...even the gorgeous Wilde looks like she's thinking, "shit, I wonder what House is doing right now? I really should get back." I'm surprised by a lot of the TB's here who think this is an above-average teaser...it plays like an ad for a tv movie of the week

I fucking hated Iron Man 2, but that doesn't mean that Favreau can't rock it out. I don't think you'll be seeing a sloppy piece of shit in Cowboys & Aliens, not with Craig, Ford and Spielberg hanging around. Won't get too loose as Iron Man 2 did. Then we have Super 8 and Green Lantern to look forward to. I guess it all can't be worse than last summer.

This is the western version of "Outlander" instead of Vikings they've got cowboys. It even starts the same way with the hero not waking up not knowing where he is. I hope they don't make him turn out to be an alien or time-traveler too. And instead of Jesus they got the Jewish dude from deliverance! Haha! Looks awesome though.

and Ford as star have been party to some garbage movies, so they're not a guarantee of anything (or starters, Indiana Jones...). That said this looks pretty kick ass, I just wanted to start the message off beig snarky.

Favreau is actually making good movies now...before Iron Man he pretty much sucked...now he's on a roll (although Iron Man 2 was not as good as the original)...I guess Elf and Zathura were just training films

I'm sorry to disappoint you but Favreau's best film to date is Swingers, which was made a very long time ago. I love Iron Man but his new stuff is not even in the same league as the genius in Swingers!

It's worth it just to see the end credits when Mike and the Bots skewer Leonard Maltin for giving Laserblast 2-1/2 stars. They then proceed to list all these great movies that Maltin gave similar scores....the obvious joke being that Maltin evidently considers Laserblast to be as good as, or superior to such films as:<p>
Being There<p>
Taxi Driver<p>
Animal House<p>
The Name of the Rose<p>
A Fish Called Wanda<p>
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<p>
Amadeus<p>
Marathon Man<p>
Outlaw Josey Wales<p>
Unforgiven<p>
Monty Python and the Holy Grail<p>
A Bridge to Far<p>
...and I will just finish this off with...<p>BLADE RUNNER (2 stars)<p>That's right, Leonard Maltin thinks Laserblast is better then Bladerunner !!

But wont redefine any genres. It'll be like peter Jackson's "Lovely Bones" in a sense that he enjoyed the source material and just probably needed to get out of his system.
He really needs a fresh vision for Iron Man 3 cause 2 was a teeny weeny little stale.

Great cast, great premise. Teaser is awesome. I'm now officially excited by this, when before I could have cared less. Now I'm actually really looking forward to it. And Ford does look great. Glad to see him in a solid adventure piece again.

Both very good movies, but very well directed. Perhaps, in some cases, better than their source material. Or, in the case, directed better than acted by Will Farrell, playing a--get this!--over the top man-child!<br><br>
I really thought Zarathustra was very well directed. Not the highest quality source material, but if you watch it for pacing, framing, editing, the performances . . . it's a really good film.<br><br>Sort of like Steven Spielberg's Always is not the greatest script (or the best actor choices--Richard Dreyfuss as a hotshot forest fire fighting pilot?). But if you just watch it for how it was directed, it's beautiful. Why Spielberg seems incapable of capturing that effortlessly cinematic beauty in any of his recent films, I got no idea. But I digress.<br><br>
Iron Man was awesome. The lowest quality film he's directed so far is Iron Man 2. Which was still pretty good. So, I'm expecting this will be a very rewarding film to watch.

I only checked out the TB so I could shred Harry for comparing Favreau to Ford and Spielberg, but that actually looks...well - good! I know - right? I intitally dismissed this flick due to the title, but I loves me some Daniel Craig (he did speak at least once,to answer a previous TB'er) and I'm excited about the rest of the cast as well (Clancy FUCKING Brown! Hells yeah!). LOL @ 'Fistfull of Xenos'. The best I could come up with was "The Quick and The Zerg". Now I gotta go see it. Oh, and fuck Leonard Maltin. Really.

What the hell are you talking about? That was a $50 million dollar film that was released for 2 weeks, despite fairly good reviews and business. The Weinstein Company had serious money problems and couldn't sink more money into promotion. That film was cut off at the knees due to a distributor cock-up.

"Finally he seems alive in this film." Really? From two lines and about four shots of him?
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I'm not saying he isn't but despite what you think of Crystal Skull, Ford likes it and is great in it. Mass hysteria/hypnosis in full effect here.

...the guy was Indy(Dr. Jones to you) and Han. Cut. Him. Some. Slack. Where would pop culture be without those two characters?
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If Harrison Ford showed up at my house and demanded to fuck my girlfriend I'd say, "Would you get going you pirate."

My thoughts exactly on both Harrison Ford's line readings and the writers. You have to work pretty hard to find two more tedious screenplays than Legend of Zorro and Transformers. And yet there's that pair, executive producing and working for Spielberg.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227005/ You guys omit it from his filmography. But yes he didn't have a choice with Iron Man 2...they made him take that lousy script or would have replaced him. He does seem to have some good instincts.

You only remember the last film a person made, and judge them by it. "I didn't like IM2, so Jon FATreau (hahahah I'm so clever!!) sucks donkey dick!" or "That last Indy movie sucked, so I hate Harrison Ford." Sound like a bunch of tweens.

Harrison will always be legendary. It's a shame that things kinda changed after the 80's. I don't know who to blame-- us, or the media (mostly the media). But I have yet to see the Harrison of today. The best scene from Blade Runner was when he broke Rachel's heart in his apartment without even flinching by telling her she was a replicant. And yes, he was also Han in the SW originals borrowing lines from Kurosawa's black and whites (ESB). Kids these days will never know. That's something I've come to terms with. I'm with you, man.

...at just how damn good that trailer is. Will be seeing the film for sure.
(Now I want to see a movie about the Grande Armee encountering a massive horde of flesh-eating ghouls during the 1812 invasion of Russia... NAPOLEON VS. ZOMBIES!)

Craig has a terrible accent & really cannot act he is so 1 dimensional. Everything he has done since Casino Royale proves this. You just cannot believe the guy when he talks its like the lights went out he is so boring!
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Hmmm let me guess Olivia Wilde is somehow either related to the Aliens via relatives & or actually is an undercover Alien giving them info....... or she is Ford's long lost daughter.
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Its either her or Ford as you know they always put in that kind of lame surprise (duhhhh like you did not see that coming!!!).

Just jumped straight to the top of my must see list for next year. Could this also mean that Harrison Ford is finally moving into character actor roles - something he should have done at least ten years ago.

releasing a teaser with non edited "making of material"...... or is it just again one of your zillions of mistakes, that even the wires are not edited out of the teaser?????
the teaser fucked up for me totally after seeing this wires easily in the first time i watched it...
TEASERFAIL

...I don't think anyone's hating on Harrison Ford, I think it's because he's such an icon that when he does a crappy movie we're all so disappointed. I do agree with the TBer that said he should do more character roles (although the whole - 'I want that man...' thing was a bit much for me. Channeling Hackman in 'Unforgiven?). I loved 'Outlander', a film that got no studio support. Everyone I've recommended it to liked it: it's not 'Star Wars', just a cool twist on the genre. I don't see Craig as one-dimensional at all. Watch 'Layer Cake' - he's awesome in it. And even though the film itself is 8 months away, the trailer still looks better than Green Lantern's, wires and all. I know - right?

What impressed me is how every detail I saw on the screen was so well thought through. Craig's character wakes up, and doesn't have time to figure out who put the fancy shackle on his wrist. When Olivia asks him 'Are they demons?" he could have taken the classic hero posture, and calmed her; instead he stays in bad-ass character. And Harrison Ford in the half-light (you're right about the lighting) looking ugly and old and mean and serious really does work. Remember when he was the bad guy on Kung Fu? He always made a better heavy than a hero, if you ask me.

how do you know that's what they are?
maybe they are whip-like tentacles or cables released from the ships for all we know. just because a majority of alien films (including skyline) have aliens sucking people up in beams of light, war of the worlds, for one, used tentacles/cables too.

He just needs a push. You know he'd spend his own time getting to know his guns until... his hands did their reloading thing.
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$30 million it's opening weekend. $15-20 million the weekend after that. It'll peak out around $100 million - $150 million if it's really lucky. <P>And the amount of money it makes will still be irrelevant to its quality and / or originality.<P>As long as we're predicting.<P>Of course, I've been wrong countless times before...I predicted the same thing for SCOTT PILGRIM and LET ME IN.<P>Hehehehehe.

I have to admit that I am a little embarrassed that I forgot about all those "mixed genres" movies that were pointed out to me by BAH and KILLIK. I also appreciate their and ZOMBOT's suggestions for movies and shows that I should check out - especially Burrowers, as I am a big Clancy Brown (Kurgan/Luthor/Carnival) fan. I would definitely add HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER to any list of mixed genres movies, as it one of my favorites. Also, Michael Mann's THE KEEP, with all its flaws (mostly editing) is a movie that I always revisit. It is just about the most wonderfully strange movie I have ever seen.

the cowboy stuff was pretty solid- the creatures were pretty cool looking (watch the making of feature to see how they are made!) their feeding gimmick was kind of just that...gimmicky for creepy's sake, not really a scientific or plausible thing....i think it had a typical 'bet you forgot about _____, didn't ya?' ending though.

he looks like he was ridden hard and put away wet, not to mention looks skinny and old as hell and unless he gets pumped full of 'roids he will never play bond again. and ol harry ford doing the grim lip acting thing -ford has the range of a buick

Nov. 18, 2010, 11:33 a.m. CST

by Cobra--Kai

Hey_Kobe oozes drool and retardation.<p>
Your care worker let you on the "kompooter" again mongboy?

Doesn't give anything away yet has enough hook to interest me.<p>That's it! No more trailers for me. I'm interested enough by this one trailer to plant my warbling ass in the theater on opening night. O the hoot!

their mercy.
Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility, the fact is, we were warned off! (by the Aliens). There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean "warned off"?
Armstrong: I can't go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology - Boy, were they big!... and menacing! No, there is no question of a space station.
Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?

alien base of the moon and that's the reason we haven't built a city there. Have you ever seen real-estate go to waste? Real estate that is already miles of usable area instead of having to build a space station? I never get over the fact that our astronauts all say there's aliens

it's pretty obvious that the people are being dragged up by tentacles or cables from the alien ship. WIRE WORK, by definition, involves using WIRES; these are way way thicker than any wire work wires. For fuck sake, can't any of you people think before you fucking type?

No, I think it had a straightforward if nihilistic ending. What I really liked is there were a lot of scenes where the creatures were lurking in the background. The characters didn't see them, and they didn't attack, but they were always there.

Why we all went gaga over The Phantom menace trailer back then was because we waited 16 years for a Star wars movie'and were ready to pay money through the nose to see one...but we all didn't expect that i would suck that hard.

The good: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford (who seems to got his cool back), Olivia Wilde, Jon Favereau as director, Mathew Libatique as DP, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine.<br><br>The bad: Harry Fucking Fuck Gregson-Williams "composing" the score, Ronni Fucking Howard producing, Roberto Retarded Untalented Fucking Piece Of Shit Orci and Alex Retarded Untalented Fucking Piece Of Shit Kurtzman as scriptwriters.<br><br>Orci and Kurtzman alone can make this movie to be monumentally epically apocalyptically horrible, and completly nullifiying the good efforts of the good people in this movie. This movie is fucked. Of course, AICN will love it because they have to kiss the ass of their true bosses, Jar Jar Abrams and now also Orci and Kurtzman.

is as talentless as Bay and Abrams. Iron Man was nothing more than brain-dead pap made to appeal to deranged 12-year-olds.
<p> Strippers pole-dancing in front of the American flag with explosions going off in the background? Fuck off! Downey Jr's two best films of the 2000's remain Wonder Boys and Good Night and Good Luck.

I was (as always) looking forward to your response in regards to our "boy" Orci. Regardless of how "cool" the trailer may seem, I'm not sold on anything written by those two hacks.Craig emotes McQeen and besides the Bond films, one of his best performances came from Layer Cake.But I somewhat digree when it comes to gregson-Williams, his best work came from the Metal Gear Solid series. I can't call him out unlikeOrci Kurtzman and to a lesser extent, Howard.

Well, Harry Gregson-Williams (Seraphim Falls, Shrek, Kingdom Of Heaven, Spy Game) isn't a bad choice but I'd prefer Alan Silvestri (BTTF, Young Guns II, The Mexican, Quick & The Dead) or Bruce Broughton (Silverado, Tombstone, Monster Squad). <p>James Newton Howard (Wyatt Earp, Waterworld, Hidalgo, Signs) would be all kinds of awesome for this too but I guess he already has a pretty full plate. <p>And what happened to John Debney being Favreau's go-to-guy? C'mon Favreau where's your loyalty at man? Must be because Debney mentioned how Favreau and company tied his hands from doing the really great thematic score for Iron Man 2 that he had intended on. That's bad on you Favreau! But just like that trusted old bottle of Febreze, Cowboys & Aliens looks like it should erase much of the foul stench left in IM2's wake. So that's good on you Favreau!

obviously they aint gonna be able to do it for 2012 - too crowded now plus Speilberg seems to be doing other stuff (WW I movie, some robot movie)....but they HAVE to do it for 2013 surely...<p>
whats due out 2013 anyway? Ghostbusters 3? Iron Man 3?

..just by the looks of some trailer.I learned my lesson(s) from watching trailers like Judge Dredd, (with a short but very impressive score courtesy of Jerry Goldsmith.)Transformers,etc. Feel free to indulge, but unless i hear that the movie is actually good, I'm not wasting my time or money.<p>Robber and Sonny, it's called having the courage of conviction. especially after witnessing Orci and Kurtzman's "track record". Drink the kool aid fellas. (0:'

I don't care about anyone's track record when it comes to a TV show or movie. I judge the current product on its perceived merits. Everything great and wonderful that Spielberg has directed and produced in the past didn't change the suckage of the TRANSFORMERS movies one iota for me. And whatever crap that Orci and Kurtzman may have written in the past doesn't change their current work either. If you, Asimov, and whoever else want to carry on like psychotic children whenever certain people are even mentioned here, go for it. The rest of us will just wish you'd go the fuck away.

Have any of you even thought that maybe they shoot down and snatch people up? Some of you come on here looking for ANYTHING to complain about. Sorry you never get laid but jesus take it down a notch you fucking losers. This movie looks bad ass. And wow I love the fact that Transformers has laid to those two writers being hated on here so much. What I don't understand is sometimes the TF are defended here. Anyone who defends anything connected to those movies has their geek card revoked. I'm against hating on cool looking films that haven't been released yet, but garbage piles that have been released... Flame away.

Just because a movie is a Western, that certainly doesn't mean it's anything approaching John Ford. Have you actually seen a John Frod film? Ford was one of the great filmmakers of all time, truly, and to watch sixty seconds of pop-western footage and describe it as "oozing John Ford" is an insult to Ford.
And I'm not even gonna bring up the face that the only thing that resembles "early Spielberg" are the lights in the sky.
All this oozes is money.
Jon Favreau is a true, true hack - and he will disappoint you again and again. He has not an ounce of vision, chops, or anything. I mean, I'm sure he's a nice guy...
I do love Harrison Ford, though. How did he get mixed up with this bunch?

not to mention that the Wild West setting was lacking a lot.Jonah Hex the comic does a better job in portraying a more true WW than this comic.after this,let's say that my optimism for this flick has lowered a bit,especially when BOBORCI is basing his stuff in an already poor material..

...will be WAY better than the marketing for Iron Man.<p>
On the other hand, while Spielberg is credited as a producer, the company producing the flick is Imagine, not Amblin.<p>
Amblin has a way better track record than Imagine when it comes to making trailers and handling a marketing campaign.

...you have to watch AVATAR on mute while listening to Lady Gaga's Fame Monster...sinc that shit up Dark Side Of The Moon/WIZARD OF OZ style...<P>
But I don't think you'll lose. Both predictions sound pretty optimistic to me.

...by the release date. The film is opening at the very end of July, in the wake of both Harry Potter and Captain America. I'll be very surprised if it manages to put up Iron Man numbers, given that scenario.

Ok, now I'm imagining Harrison Ford as Ben Cartwright in a "dark & gritty" Bonanza movie.<p>
Ok, now I'm imagining Harrison Ford as Marshall Will Kane in a High Noon remake.<p>
Ok, now I'm imagining Harrison Ford as Wil Andersen in a remake of The Cowboys.<p>
This is a fun game!

It has very modern colors and contrast, has a modern horror/action score, and quick action packed editing, and very typical modern trailer content... plus movie stars that take me a bit out of the fictional reality (early Spielberg didn't have stars on purpose!)

Bitch, why do you getdefuck out? I don't give two shits if assholes like you can't tolerate opinions as everyone on the tb threads have many both positive and negative.Y'see, when ppl critique stuff i find amusing or entertaining, i don't pitch a bitch.(It's called freedom of sppech.Learn it someday.)And i'm sure you have trashed a few Movies not to your liking so you know what that makes you, a hypocrite thus your arguement in null, moot or what-the-fuck-ever.<p>Now,begone douche.

is my all time fave Trek episode..i like all the Twilight Zone type stuff in that ep - all the trippy music, the half sets(for budgetry reasons but worked well in the context of the ep addind to the strangeness), the odd camera angles, red backdrop, the almost robotic performances of the Earps, the twist our the heroes playing the villains. its one of those very eerie, strange, slightly scary trek episodes that could easily be a Twilight Zone or Outer Limts

If he ends up being a tax collector or some guy that's stingy with his money and his name is the writer's attempt at some witty humor... I'm seriously going to beat that's writer's ass. <p> On a positive note though, this looks really good.

...then I saw the Orci and Kurtzman credit. Their primary production asset may to be turning out pages rapidly; since its not for converting "Snakes on a Plane" into "E.T.s on the Ranch". Depressing to see Craig and Ford in this but there's always hope Favreau can elevate the "concept".

It's nice to see a fantasy concept treated as something other than a goofy joke. This is like the opposite of the Green Lantern trailer... Silly concept? Perhaps, but not when treated seriously. The tone makes all the difference. And seeing Ford in a potentially cool genre picture that is NOT Indiana Jones is kind of amazing. I'm looking forward to this based just on the teaser.

Guys... you followed the development of that movie right? You know Favreau stated he wanted an extra year to work on the story and make sure it was as good as it could be, and Marvel said no, right? The man did what he could with the time he had available. He probably saved it from being worse that it was, which, in the end, was an entertaining but somewhat flawed film. You are movie buffs, you must know how things work in this business by now, right? Oh, and it wasn't all Raimi's fault that Spidey 3 had problems either, but that's for a different Talkback.

Must now resist the urge to troll the internet and learn more about this. <P>
Making a good trailer is a lost art. I know this is just the teaser, but really, wouldn't it be great if this was the final trailer. Would you go see this based on this alone? Of course you would. <P>
Craig channeling Steve McQueen in that trailer makes me his his biggest fan EVAR!

I'll try to explain this simply. I have trashed movies - that I have actually SEEN! And I trash them based on what's in that movie, not the track record of whoever made or stars in said movie. And I state my opinion and that's it. I DON'T go around spamming hour after hour, day after day, month after month posting THE SAME FUCKING CHILDISH RANTS TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME! That's what differentiates 99% of the posters here from the psychos.

I'm not going to bother to watch this crap, even if is directed by the Iron Man director and stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford and Clancy Brown and Sam Rockwell. This well is poisoned... with shit!! Screw this movie.

Well, to give the devil his due, Harry Gregson-Williams's score for SERAPHIM FALLS is really bvery good. I was suprised. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN has half a great score, the other half is irritating beyond description. And he seems to restrain himself quite a lot for the two Ben Affleck directed movies, which is a good thing. Otherwise, his scores are fucking pudrid shit, the equivalent of a movie score what Bob Orci and fucking Jar Jar Abrams are respectively to screenwriting and directing. He could get his METAL GEAR SOLID score and shove it up his fucking ass. Fuck, does that score irritates the shit out of me!

I didn't know anything about the source material (the GN), or really anything about the movie other than a few of the stars, directors, the poster that was in another TB.
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So the tone totally threw me off, in a good way! I guess I was expecting something more like Men in Black + Wild Wild West, and we're getting 3:10 to Yuma + [Cameron] Aliens.
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Some outstanding H. Ford in the trailer, and Craig is fantastically badass (I'm a huge fan of his Bond, even if the 2nd movie was so-so). I guess some of the crew has some questionable work, but overall the trailer and caliber of the actors gives me really high hopes!

First and foremost, this is AICN in which many posters have/and still trash films regardlss if they have seen it or by their perceptions after watching a trailer. (i.e. Green Lantern)So I guess you're the 'sane" one while many of us are psychos.LMMFAO.<P>On the contrary, you're either batshit or wayy to sensitive because someone gave a negative opinion regarding this trailer. (sorry Bitch, not everyone beats to your drum.) that being said, do yourself a favor and stop trying to be some ANALyst while you're riding your high horse.99%? No, more like 64%.Get a clue, dweeb.

Hmmm..let's see: After this Robber Button fellow made a comment about the detractors of this yet to be released film (and I respect his comments regarding to ignore said retractors.) and your sorry smug ass had to add your two cents.Ergo, I called you out on your bullshit and obviously you must be new to this site as you are a bit..ill informed.<p>WTF are you one of Orci's plants?And what douchebag calls himself sonny (underscore) williams?LMMFAO Now that's originality son.

..I can respect your opinions/sentiments about Harry G.Williams, but I digress and his score for MGS was Grrrreat!Always honest and direct to the point.LOL.BTW what's your beef with Ron Howard? don't tell me that you didnt care for backdraft or a Beautiful Mind...on second thought, i don't wanna get ya worked up again.Nevermind.(0; <p>Regardless of how impressive the trailer may seem or who's starring in it, i have little faith in C&A thanks the the "excellent" writing team of Orci and Kurtzman.

Don't even amke me remidn of that A CRAP MIND fucking piece of retard shit crap of a movie. Fuck how i hated that shit! There are many filmamkers out there whoshould never, ever try to make make movies about intelligenc,e because they haven't a clue about what it's like, and one of those is Ronny Fucking Howard. In all his life, Ronny Howard only made one truly great thing, and that was his daughter Dallas. His movies, not so much. He belongs to the Hack Pack.

pathetic,miserable,little cunt,arent you?<br />
<p>FYI Harry Gregson-Williams based his more familiar orchestral MGS theme (by a request from Hideo Kojima himself) on the original MGS theme which was created by a japanese composer named TAPPY.<br />
<p>another fact is that Gregson has essentially made at least 3 different versions of the MGS theme (my favourite being the MGS3 theme) so unless your heart is filled only with venomous hate,you would like at least one of those themes if you listened to them.<br />
<p>cheerio mate.

I supposed there could have been some sort of cable that wraps around him that we don't know about, but it sure looks like you're right.
<BR><BR>That doesn't bother me at all. The tone of this movie is so great, I won't care. As soon as I saw Daniel Craig with the hat on I knew this movie would be great.

...what - you don't like 'Cocoon'? 'Apollo 13'? Opie? I don't get the hate at all. And Dude, enough with the Orci/Kurtzman hate - we get it. They ruined your 'Trek'. Please, get over it. I myself am old enough to have watched TOS on TV during its original run, and I don't hate on Trek 2009. Sure, the best I can say is 'It wasn't horrible', but didn't the 'Enterprise' TV show piss all over the series even more? I usually respect your (and everyone else's for that matter) opinion, even if I don't agree with it, but I just don't get all the vitriol.

"And just for your general info, I've been on AICN since its first year online. And I'll be here long after you're smug ass is gone."<p>Me Smug? You're (and not "your".)a fucking laugh riot.Obviously after all these Years on AICN since it's inception, you have really nothing to contribute to the forums but disrespect those who don't dance to your tune. You come off as if you are some fucking moderator.Oh, actually, you're not qualified especially since you lack..hmm how shall I say it, proper grammar?<p>What a Cuntrag.

Methinks our friend Asi is a bit too biased due to Williams' association with Bay.But I don't hold it against him after all "To each His/Her own".IMO The MGS Score is his best stuff, but then again I could be biased as well since I as like you, are Gamers.I respect Asi's right to express himself regardless if I agree or not. (Besides, it's fair game as there are some films he likes but I don't.)If we all agreed on everything, this would be a very boring site.<p>that being said, if this Movie turns out to be a critical sucess, then those two hacks(Orci and Kuntzman) may have redeemed their honor or what's left of it.

...we agree on many things. I just don't understand the hate, especially at 'Ritchie Cunningham'. Like I said, everyone's entitled to an opinion, just wondering where the intensity comes from. It's not like they tag-teamed his Aunt May and then borrowed money from her, they just fucked up some some movies.

didn't even know it was live-action, lol, guess i was just basing that expectation off of the title. speaking of which, that's the only weak point of his trailer. couldn't somebody have thought of a better name?

Wasn't Fett's cape a refrence to The Man with no Name's poncho?
I mean he wears it thrown off to one side to accommodate his jet pack. Much like TMWNN's manner when flips his poncho back to draw. Also, what was with Ford on Conan. Pretty strange stuff, pretty strange.

How the fuck are BAY and Favreau "leaving Spielberg in the dust"? Bay is a fucking HACK who isn't worthy of cupping his hands to hold Spielberg's morning dump, and Favreau, while I love Elf and the first 3/4 of Iron Man, completely punted that piece of dreck Iron Man 2 and needs to really step up to the plate with this one to prove he isn't just a middle of the pack director.

I saw this trailer the other day when I went to see HP7. I loved it, but the audience laughed out loud when they saw the title. The studio is going to have to aggressively market this one or people are going to go in expecting a comedy.

...I was blown away by the trailer, all of it including the title, but thought I saw the devil flash by in the writing credits, so I rewound... i haven't stopped laughing yet, been falling over myself at what you people will see if you choose not to heed my warning and buy a ticket for this those two cum-farts

I don't get that comment, and I don't get how this is a John Ford movie with aliens in it. If there's one movie that oozed (or ripped off) John Ford, it's Star Wars (particularly the Tatooine scenes). George Lucas, there's a guy who, in his early years, knew how to mimic the greats.

...has totally run out of ideas. But this looks so great! So what if it's just the juxtaposition of two major movie tropes? No one's thought of it before and obviously it's all in the execution. This looks really well done, wonderfully cast and very imaginative. I love Favreau - when he hits it, he really hits it, square on the nose. And I don't even like Craig!

That was the coolest I've seen Ford look since freakin' Air Force One. Give the man a gun and a hat and even Bond himself has to give props. Any chance Spielberg would be gracious enough to see Favreau's got the hot hand. Let him do Indy 5. Pretty sure Favreau wouldn't join in on giving sweet, slow head to Shia like Stevie and Georgie do.

Despite the hate Spielberg gets for his later films, films that I might add are still incredible for the most part (LOVED Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, War of the World, Minority Report, Jurassic Park, Munich, Catch me if you Can). Just because he's had a few turds, like Crystal Skull, doesn't mean hacks like BAY are taking anything away from him. And yes, I love War of the Worlds. It has some of the most incredible scenes in a Sci-Fi/action film ever. The first time the Tripod is revealed? Incredible. Bay and his pathetic coke-addled "films" can suck a bag of cocks off a dead hooker's chest.